Purple: Spirit Cape

"Spirit Cape" celebrates purple which represents the idea of ''spirit' from Gilbert Baker's original pride flag. This cape was created as a gift for a Two-Spirit friend and is the fifth in the series.

The splash of colour from the progress pride flag on the inside is featured alongside fabric by Carrie Okemaw, (IG: @okemawfloraldesignsan) artist connected to Manto Sipi Cree Nation and the Anishinaabe community of Berens River First Nation, who created this design for @marshallfabrics The cape's yellow elements, interwoven throughout, symbolize the power and resistance of my Two-Spirit friends and chosen family.

The term Two-Spirit is used by some Indigenous People to describe themselves. This term was developed in 1990 during the Third Annual Inter-tribal Native American, First Nations, Gay and Lesbian American Conference held in Winnipeg. It was intended to replace pejorative anthropological terms previously used and to differentiate Indigenous concepts of gender and sexuality from those of Settlers.